Speaking to an audience in Oklahoma City about a month after his release, he
said he had a conversation with his father the night before he was detained.
“Maybe a little bit arrogantly, perhaps with a little bit of conceit, I
said, ‘It’s OK, Dad. I know what I’m doing. I’ve been in this situation
before,'” Shadid told the crowd of several dozen people. “I guess
on some level I felt that if I wasn’t there to tell the story, the story
wouldn’t be told.”
Shadid’s father, Buddy Shadid, who lives in Oklahoma City, said a colleague
tried to revive his son after he was stricken Thursday but couldn’t.
“They were in an isolated place. There was no doctor around,” Buddy
Shadid said. “It took a couple of hours to get him to a hospital in
Turkey.”
He said Anthony Shadid had asthma all his life and had medication with him.
“(But) he was walking to the border because it was too dangerous to ride
in the car,” the father said. “He was walking behind some horses –
he’s more allergic to those than anything else – and he had an asthma attack.”
Source: AP
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